Title: Flight of Faith (Virtues and Valor, Part 7)
Author: Hallee Bridgeman
Pages: 110 (approximately)
Year: 2015
Publisher: Olivia Kimbrell Press
Note: I received a free eBook copy of this novella through
The Book Club Network in exchange for my honest opinion.
About the book:
HELEN MULBERRY,
the youngest child and only daughter of a wealthy Texas oil tycoon, has always
had her every wish granted immediately. When the Germans march into France, no
one denies her request to fly her plane to England and help free up a male
pilot for combat. Her father’s influence opens doors, and 19 year old Helen
joins the Virtues team.
Now under the
code-name FAITH, she flies between Britain and France, transporting passengers,
supplies, or performing reconnaissance. The Nazis guard their skies with vigor,
and Helen learns to fly in combat, land in a field with no lights, and evade
the anti-aircraft fire. She masterfully takes on each mission, despite the
perceptions and chauvinistic attitudes of many of the male pilots.
Shot down over
France during the mission to rescue the agent code named TEMPERANCE from the
clutches of the Gestapo, Helen must make her way through enemy territory with
no language skills and somehow come through with a means to get her team back
to Britain. Can she save them, or will they all find that they have no way out?
FLIGHT OF FAITH
is the final episode in seven serialized novellas entitled the Virtues and
Valor series by Hallee Bridgeman. Seven serialized novellas, each inspired by
real people and actual events, reveal the incredible story of amazing heroines
facing the ultimate test of bravery.
Seven valorous
women – different nationalities, ethnicities, and social backgrounds – come
together as a team called the Virtues.
In 1941 Great
Britain has a special war department that assembles an experimental and
exclusively female cohort of combat operatives. Four willing spies, a wireless
radio operator, an ingenious code breaker, and a fearless pilot are each
hand-picked, recruited, and trained to initiate a daring mission in Occupied
France. As plans are laid to engineer the largest prison break of Allied POWs
in history, the Nazis capture the Virtues’ radio operator. It will take the
cohesive teamwork of the rest of the women to save her life before Berlin
breaks her and brings the force of the Third Reich to bear.
Some find love,
some find vengeance, and some discover the kind of strength that lives in the
human heart when all they can do is rely on each other and their shared belief.
Courage, faith and valor intersect but, in the end, one pays the ultimate
price.
My review:
The incredible
conclusion of this serialized novel!
In this final
part of the Virtues and Valor series we finally get to find out about Helen
Mulberry, code named Faith. She is the pilot for the team and we have already
seen snippets of the work that she does in each of the previous parts of the
story. I love the way that Hallee developed this character and introduced us to
her family. It was wonderful to find out where she learned to love flying. When
she first tells her family that she is going to England to help in the fight
again Germany she tells them point blank, “I feel God calling me.” This
establishes immediately where she is placing her faith. She never wavers from
that which is so encouraging.
I thoroughly
enjoyed getting the final pieces of the puzzle put in place for the overall
story. I am absolutely amazed that Hallee was able to build seven separate
stories, and yet have all of them fit together into one larger picture. She has
done an excellent job of crafting this amazing serialized novel to entertain
us. It was wonderful to find out so much about the contribution of women to
WWII in reading the “Inspired by Real Events” sections at the end of each part.
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